[Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!
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Fri May 21 20:11:28 UTC 2010
David Goodman wrote:
> all of these problems are with other people than us. Our copyright
> license permits commercial use, and does not apply to any potential
> problems other than copyright. This has nothing to do with our
> licensing. The reason nobody has answered this before is that it is
> irrelevant
>
> The responsibility for following the law in uploads is with the
> uploaders. It would however be good to alert them to the potential
> problem.
>
That in essence is the problem. A whole bunch of people promote
something called Wikimedia Foundation which says it owns and operates a
number of sites.
http://www.wikimedia.org/
and when anything controversial happens, whenever any one comes
knocking, everyone runs for a bolt hole, or looks shifty and muttering
"we got nuffin to do with it".
Its a tactic that allows Faux News to cast the Foundation as
irresponsible jerks.
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